St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17
LABOR NOTES.
Some Interesting Facts in the World of
the Wage-workers.

Some Interesting Facts in the World of
the .Wage-workers.
A new iron furnace is to be introduced
which will cost only one-third as much to
build as present furnaces COST and which
will be operated with one-third as much coal.
The first furnace in Virginia will be erected
at once at Richmond. The principal iron
centres South and West are taking hold oft.
1t will Offset the advantages of natural gas.
English engineers are about to introduce
marine boilers of very large dimensions,
which will save $50 or 800 pounds Of steam
pressure per square inch, and which are not
weakened by bolts They are weldless. The
idea is likely to revolutionize marine boiler
making and enable vessels to increase their
speed.
An American, Hotchkiss, has made a
worldwide fame on guns. Another Amerl-
can, Allen by name and Of New York, IS
out with new process for casting guns OF
any size up to 500 TONS which are equal to
the best forged or "built-up' guns.
A Chicago man, Bdwell by name, has
planned an electric railway to run from the
United States through British America and
Alaska to Behring's strait, crossing bridge
into Asia and thence connecting with the
railway system of Russia.
The largest plategl works in the world
will soon be erected at Manoryille, thirty
miles east of Pittsburg. The sum Of S110,-
600 was paid for the site.
Clothing-cutters expect to have all the
work they can possibly do. There are very
few apprentices coming along to compete for
employment.
Labor organizers are less active now than
they have been for months, although new
lodges and associations are constantly spring
ing up.
A foreign government is having dupi-
cate made of the pneumatic dynamite gun
now in course of construction at Cramps.
The twenty-four savings banks of New
York have deposits amounting to $3.50, OOO,-
600. The number of depositors is 6o1,OOO
The girls of Louisville are to have a par
tial business training, including bookkeep-
ing, shorthand writing and type-writing.
The coal operators of four Western States
have formed an interstate coal association,
with headquarters at St. Louis.
American engineers will probably soon be
called upon to lay out a railroad across Cen
trail America to the Pacific.
A great many shoe manufacturers are go
ing up into New Hampshire. Farmer boys
are picking up the trade.
A New York railroad company will ex-
pend $6OO,0OO in introducing new system
of steam heating for cars.
Large purchases of coal lands are being
made in Western Pennsylvania despite the
natural gas craze.
The Indiana coal operators refuse to pay
their miners semi-monthly according to the
laws of the State.
Up to September only 1873 wage-work-
ers had struck, of whom 1000 were .Youngs-
town quarrymen.
Sixty Belgians have just arrived at the
Tarentum, Pa, plate-glass works, where
there is strike.
Southern cotton mills are adopting cleo
tricity, and find it cheaper and more service
able than gas
The coal trade is very dull in West Vir-
ginia, and the miners are eating up their
1t has been estimated by electricians that
it will cost only $4,000 per year to Light
Chicago.
Boilermakers are quite busy ali over the
country, and machine-shop labor is in active
demand.
A London company has ordered 800 cars
10 be run by electricity instead of horse
power.
The pressed-ware and lamp-chimney fac
tories of the country will all be running this
week.
There is great and increasing demand
for small houses in Southern manufacturing
cities.
Twenty cars have been ordered to run on
;he seven miles of electric railway in Omaha.
The makers of baseball goods have been
driven this season to their utmost capacity.
Shoe manufacturers find machine lasting
not SO profitable as hand lasting
A 81 600, 900 electric railway company has
been organized in Detroit.
Scranton, Pa, will have 300 electric lights
n operation by October.
Dayton, o., will have a fully equipped
a. I;ro h1v0